I send an email to the Tivoli Web Site mentioning the discrepancy on the link for Enhanced Value Based licensing yesterday.
Today the link is updated, pointing to the proper definitions. http://www.tivoli.com/products/licensing/enhanced-vbp-definitions.doc Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: Rushforth, Tim Sent: April 17, 2002 3:31 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: New Tivoli licensing - what "processor" mean (RESOLVED) Hi Zlatko: Where did you find the definitions for "Processors" and "Clients". Thanks, Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: Zlatko Krastev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Tivoli licensing - what "processor" mean (RESOLVED) Hello fellow *SMers, even if I do not like the answer we've found it. According to IBM EMEA Announcement Letter ZP02-0172 (http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealets&parms=H_ERIFZP020172), Section "Ordering IBM Tivoli Products" "One or more charge units are associated with each product. These charge units are: - Processors managed by the product - Clients managed by the product - Distributed servers managed by the product - zSeries processors managed by the product - Processors in which the managing server is installed" Processors are based upon TSM server and TSM *nodes* processors if they are servers in customer application environment. If it is a workstation (appl. client) it requires "client" license and no "processors". So if we have an (imaginary) ISM installation consisting of dual-processor TSM server, cluster of two four-processor Oracle servers, uniprocessor file server, uniprocessor MDC and 20 dual-processor Xeon/2GHz CAD stations, we would need 12 "processor" and 20 "client" charge units for IBM TSM (5698-ISM) or IBM TSM EE (5698-ISE) and (optional) eight processors for IBM TSM for Databases (5698-APD). Right now I cannot calculate all possible configurations nor predict any averages or stats but for some configurations price would change slightly while for some others will drop significantly. OTOH I can make (not so) artificial configuration which would have an increased price. This raises the issue how to migrate Tivoli Management Points from Value-Based Pricing to Processors and Clients in Enhanced VBP. Also another question to ask is - does a customer need to buy additional licenses to keep its license compliance. This is another story and I have to dig more. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant
